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1.
Not only. But from approx 27GB of music on my PC at
least 3/4 is anime OST, and part of other is
JPop/JRock.
2.
Whoa? Wrong! Maya…
3.
It`s good after all but what they mean “can`t stop”?
I “hate” dub after all (“hate” – means – I know some
of other like it but there`s nothing to do, but I
dislike it), but i didn`t get a thing – what they
mean?
4.
Not know what`s that (probably my bad engrish)
5.
1/3 of mind resources. No more – no less.
That enough.
6.
No one. They all in my head.
7.
Reason is other. But mostly correct.
8.
No one in this world can do that IMHO.
All what seen, they mean?
9.
Not so enlightened, and still have a some to do.
10.
Control! Yourself! If you cannot – at least learn
how to create sandboxes in your mind.
11.
No. Simply get more anime – it better.
12.
I don`t care about that words.
13.
Yes.
14.
It`s a waste of traffic, that can be used for anime.
15.
Some.
16.
I don`t want to do anything with they too.
17.
May be. But I cannot check it, since memorized so much, there`s no way to clear memory, fulled with
anime-related things.
18.
May be later, but it`s some betrayal of 2D,
don`t you think?
19.
In Soviet Russia… You know what I mean…
20.
What? Other peoples? In my life? May be.
But I don`t care.
21.
Yes. If I see it. And I see it…
frequently, but not so.
22.
At that moment. Yeah.
23.
I actually don`t know what the subj is. But added it to queue of TODO.
24.
Not right.
25.
Same as 23.

At the end. The OP, IMHO, have a some narrow angle
of view to Otaku, also quantity of points is tailored
to be a semi-round number. But no one have a wide
enough look, and thanks for sharing knowledge – its
only the way to get a bit nearer. Sorry my bad engrish.

1. You only listen to anime songs now
Uhhh…no.
2. You have no interest in 3D
Why would I keep myself from the beauty that is 3D?
3. You just can’t stop listening to seiyuu voices
Uhg…most of them are annoying, all cutesy & crap. Blech.
4. You go to Animate [the store chain]
Where?
5. You gladly pour all your passion, money and time into otaku pursuits
HA! I have bills to pay, bub. As for spare cash? I buy as much novels & movies as anime & manga.
6. The posters in your room? All anime
No…quite a few scene paintings, too.
7. You instantly pronounce the most hard to comprehend anime titles correctly
lmao…no.
8. You’ve got all the character profiles memorized, all of them…
How does one even?
9. You sit around fantasizing all the time about you know what
Sex? I’m a guy. Nothing odd there.
10. If the talk turns to your favorite anime you can no longer control yourself
DEFINITELY does not apply.
11. You actually check seiyuu blogs
…They have blogs?
12. You even admit you are an otaku
Nope.
13. You’re amassing doujinshi
Uhhh…no.
14. You’ve been listening to anime web radio shows
What is this?
15. You attend anime and seiyuu events
I went to a comicon once back in high school. I left after 10 minutes.
16. Nobody wants anything to do with you! ｡ﾟ(ﾟ´Д｀ﾟ)ﾟ｡
I’m not the life of the party, but I’m definitely approached by others for conversation. So long as I appear to be in a good mood.
17. You could not possibly live on without anime in your life
That just made me squirt Dr. Pepper outta mah nose. It burns!!!
18. You buy anime dakimakura covers
…what?
19. You’re sure to buy up all volumes of the DVD and original work
How much would that even cost?
20. Other people even call you “otaku”
No.
21. You make use of the word “moe”
It wasn’t until I came here for the porn I heard of the word.
22. You have played love sims at some point
Unless you count games like Thousand Arms…?
23. You actually got all the references in Haiyore! Nyaruko-san
I’ve not heard of whatever that title is pronounced.
24. You become exceedingly busy in the run up to certain summer and winter festivals
I don’t celebrate squat.
25. You call Chitanda Eru “Erutaso”
I guess that’s the name of a character?

7. Or your language uses the exact same sounds in their language and you know enough Japanese to pronounce titles*.
21. Wait, using a term used to describe something makes you an otaku? Yeah, and using the words starboard, boat and sails make you a sailor.

Well, with 2/25, what does that make me?

*Unless there are really freakishly weird title names that I haven’t heard of yet.

1 (Mostly. 90% are anime songs)
4 (Went there all the time when I was studying abroad in Nagoya)
5
6
7
8 (only for my top 5 series though)
9
10
12
13 (bought a lot of these studying abroad)
17
19 (again, only for my favorite series)
20
21
22 (I’m assuming visual novels in general, since the majority seem to be romance-centered)
23
24

The Lovecraft references are obvious, but prominent only in character design. There are episodes where it barely even matters. The rest of the show is one anime or game parody after another. In one episode they were doing almost complete copies of famous scenes for half the show.

None of that’s an issue, since it was entertaining, but recognizing all of those references would definitely count as otaku-street-cred.

This list only applies to a certain kind of otaku, the moe-obsessed useless specimins who only consume, and never create.
THis kind of otaku give everyone else a bad name. A true otaku should stop being like this, and funnel their energy into creation.
Make comics, or videogames, or even animations or short tokusatsu films. You will be happier, and you will make others happy. You might even make some money!

None of these apply to me even though I’ve watched over 500 animes and the only thing I even watch is anime… does this mean I have hope? xD Oh wait, I did play Katawa Shoujo, that must make me otaku then.

definitely applies to me, but then again, it’s become somewhat like breathing and eating, you just do it and still continue to pursue the other aspects of your daily life. Though, having a large circle of peers who are all into various combinations of anime, manga, video games and Japanese music helps a lot with the socializing part, especially if there are females among them. I guess I can consider myself lucky.

Some of them just seem incredibly vague. Having EVER been to Animate makes you an otaku? If, at any point, you played a love sim (even out of idle curiosity or at someone else’s insistence) you’re an otaku?

I dont’ qualify, I like j-rock but I getting the album prior to the any announcement of a song being in an anime doesn’t count. I also do follow one voice actor but that has been a trend more because he is the host of Toonami and its been ressurected in America. I’m also trying to get him to come to a convention in my area too, he’s also the american voice to Vincent Valentine.

they forgot
-you marry your pillow
-lick your tv when your favorite anime girl is on there
-bake food for inanimate objects
-get ticked off for poeple making hentai of your favorite character
-get mad when other people like your character as much as you.
-busta nut on your anime figure collection
-collect figures, take pictures of them, and post it on websites.
-call real women 3d pigs.
-celebrate birthdays of made up characters
-threaten to kill the creators of you favorite show if it doesn’t go in a direction you like, or is going to be canceled.
-anytime you are in a picture, you wear a blindfold, sit with your legs crossed and hands together like you’re channeling you ninja powers.
-say things like “i can has biscuits” “want moar” “fap fap fap” and “lol, wut”

1. Nope. A lot of it sucks, though there are good ones. Not to be a hipster but Western indie music is still my fave.
2. Lots of interest here.
3. I listen to them…in anime/video games. The end.
4. Would love to go, but unfortunately, I’m not in Japan.
5. I buy figures, cosplay things and, sometimes, posters/prints. Lots of money spent, but not all of it.
6. I’d say 1/3 anime
7. I’m not sure what this means by “hard to comprehend”. Most of the time when I see titles they’re romanized anyway. If I don’t get it I check the katakana. If it has kanji then fuck.
8. No
9. Nop.
10. I like talking about it with my friends, and we fangirl, but don’t go out of control.
11. Nope.
12. I’m proud to have never called myself an otaku, even in my early, extreme weeaboo days.
13. I have plenty of doujinshi, yes.
14. Nope.
15. I attend anime and comic conventions. They’re so fun!
16. I go out a lot. With friends and people and my little brothers. So no.
17. I’d survive on good TV shows, I suppose. Anime is fun, though. I’d probably miss it for a while.
18. I’d like to, but there aren’t many nice male ones, and I’m not interested in a pillow with a naked girl on it.
19. Nope.
20. Nope. I live in an English speaking country.
21. Nope.
22. Yep.
23. The first episode was too painful to watch, I didn’t even touch the rest.
24. Nope.
25. I call her Chitanda because that’s what Houtarou calls her.

Wow I’m actually kinda disapointed in a way…. I’m not a Otaku… I watch lots of anime and used to buy manga and VHS/DVD but never enough that it was “Exteme”… I could actually be completely cut off from it and be ok… I would be bored but ok…

and now that I think about it I’m like that with everything in my life… Games, Anime and Movies, Friends and Family Even the Internet I don’t think I would actually be OK…. bored but ok… What happened to my passion!….

Looks like its 1 and 7 for me reason being is thati got hooked onto this computer game called Osu and its basically Nightcore and anime songs nonstop and 7 being the reason i decided to learn japanese at a slow and comfortable pace and the first thing i wanted to master was saying anime titles correctly im sure i would be in other if i had money D’:

I’ve only done #22 because of curiosity… actually it was an eroge but w/e.
And yes I know a lot of the references from #23 but I’m not sure if I missed any without noticing because I didn’t know them so… meh.

Oh please … otaku is basically a form of insult for the most part , you can get labelled as otaku just for watching keroro gunso ffs .
So no , having people call you otaku isn’t a sign that you’re one .

Lol i got 1-17,21,22
18. i still searching the one that i like
19. Pirate … rawr…
20. i didn’t have anyone to call me :forever alone:
23. ._. reference… anime and game references or love craft… i didn’t read lovecraft…
24. there’s no comiket here T^T but we have other festival
25.? why whould i call her erutaso…

Well, some of them applies to me at least. The most obvious is #1, as almost all of the songs in my PC and phone are anime songs. The others are the songs featured in games like FIFA 11/12 and NBA 2K11/2K12.

19 points…
it’s harder to get high score when it would be physically impossible to do some of those.
(wish we had a manga, anime, game, LN, figure store chain in the states, but noooooooooo, that’s too fcking much to ask for)

Oh no it doesn’t suck but of course you might think so if you only listen and know about mainstream. Anison in general as music is bad, sure it can be catchy but in general it isn’t that great but of course there is a few exceptions that are a bit better but still. At the same time most people don’t really care about music itself for what it is, they simply like having it on the side and like it to be part of a group or simply like it not for the music itself but for the image it projects. Mainstream is all about the image not the music. You can like whatever and so can everyone else but before making such claims saying that music these days “suck” you should try to inform yourself and not only look at mainstream. But of course it takes time and effort and it isn’t as easy as simply checking out mainstream music.

1-not going to support fucking US/CAN/UK male singers or bitches like victoria justice unless she and other girls want to help relieve my dick.
7-kind of
13. rushed to download doujinshi thanks to fucking SOPA/TPP.
16,17-life sucks, friends far away & don’t give a shit about me, can’t get hot girls, family is annoying, attracted to hot 17 yr old sister but she has a bf and hates incest.
23-didn’t watch 1 ep

“Yes, anime music that is.”
You do realize that anime music is mainstream, right? The problem is really that most people are ignorant about music but it’s just because they don’t really care about music itself and there’s nothing wrong with that as long as they don’t go around claiming things before informing themselves.

anime music and mainstream? I think not. Except you mean mainstream anime music. Last time I checked the opening from Uchuu Kaizoku Captain Harlock was anime music and not mainstream, in case your wondering what the difference is.

for 1, does it include 歌ってみた ? cause i only listen to it usually …..
for 20, friend call me otaku because most of the time, i am the only 1 still watch anime and play some jap-based ps3 game like agarest…while others just watch hk/kr/tw drama, or play fifa, cod, bf………

1) No
2) Yes
3) No
4) No, but only because of location
5) Yes
6) No, only a third
7) Well, I speak two languages, Bad English and Bad Japanese, so…
8) Um, what?
9) …what is this, I don’t even.
10) I always control myself
11) Why?
12) Yes
13) Yes, digitally at least. Physical copies can get you arrested around here
14) No
15) I don’t leave the house
16) Yes
17) Yes
18) I would if I could afford them
19) Sure
20) Other people don’t talk to me
21) Yes
22) Yes
23) Well, all the Lovecraft ones
24) Well, my bandwidth does
25) Who the fuck is that

Which titles to you consider hard to pronounce? Worst thing I encountered was a character name. He’s called Nrvnsqr. Good luck pronouncing that one. (In Carnival Phantasm his Seiyuu actually managed to pronounce it, which blew my mind.)

It’s “ditto” unless you’re actually talking about that crappy female singer, who was once in that Eminem music video with the guy who wants to be Eminem and drives a car off a bridge and kills himself and Dido, because she he locked her in the trunk/boot of the car.
Dumbass.

Formerly Guilty:
5. You gladly pour all your passion, money and time into otaku pursuits
9. You sit around fantasising all the time about you know what

Still Guilty:
7. You instantly pronounce the most hard to comprehend anime titles correctly
10. If the talk turns to your favourite anime you can no longer control yourself
22. You have played love sims at some point

1. Hell no… Can’t stand them
2. I still have interests
3. No
4. No. Never heard of this store.
5. No
6. Yes. It is all anime.
7. No.
8. No
9. No
10. No. Id talk about it, but Im not that passionate about it to have this prob.
11. No
12. yes I am one. Not sure about the Degree though
13. No
14. Hell No
15. I have been to anime conventions to buy and look around. Thats it.
16. No. I still do go out and have friends.
17. No.
18. I have and will be. I Treat them like posters in my room.
19. No.
20. No. Never had this happen to me.
21. No. Never used the word.
22. Nope
23. No. Will be seeing and buying when it comes to R1 release. Im sure I dont get 90% of the refrence though.
24. Will go to the conventions in Taipei, but being very busy? Nope.
25. Nope. Dont know what that is.

So…. can someone that knows more about anime lifestyle that I do decipher what my answers ultimatly puts me as?